Dial vs Dialect - What's the difference?
dial | dialect |
A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
A clock face.
A sundial.
A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
(British, dated) A person's face.
* 1960:' ''At the sound of the old familiar voice he spun around with something of the agility of a cat on hot bricks, and I saw that his '''dial , usually cheerful, was contorted with anguish, as if he had swallowed a bad oyster.'' (, ''(Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter IX)
A miner's compass.
To measure or indicate something with a dial.
To control or select something with a dial
To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.
To use a dial or a telephone.
(linguistics) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
* A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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A dialect of a language perceived as substandard and wrong.
* 1967 , Roger W. Shuy, Discovering American dialects , National Council of Teachers of English, page 1:
* 1975 , Linguistic perspectives on black English , H. Carl, page 219:
* 1994 , H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the dark , Heinemann, page 11:
A language.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
As nouns the difference between dial and dialect
is that dial is a graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed) while dialect is (linguistics) a variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.As a verb dial
is to measure or indicate something with a dial.dial
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
Usage notes
* (term) and (term) are more common in the US. (term) and (term) are more common in the UK.Derived terms
* dial-in * dial in * dial-up * dialer (US) * dial tone * misdial * redialAnagrams
* * ----dialect
English
(wikipedia dialect)Noun
(en noun)- And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly'' Adverbs: compare
(81) (a) Tex talks ''really quickly'' [Adverb + Adverb]
(b) %Tex talks ''real quick [Adjective + Adjective]
- Many even deny it and say something like this: "No, we don't speak a dialect around here.
[...]
- Well, those children don't speak dialect , not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
[...] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect'. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak ' dialect ."
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
